Critical GIS Reading List

[ updated 29 May 2012 ]

I've constructed this bibliography as a set of key readings, organized as a chronology, that I feel traces the various genealogies of contemporary 'critical GIS'. This is, of course, a work in progress, and I'll look forward to comments/feedback/questions!

Schroeder, Paul. 1996. Criteria for the design of a GIS/2, Specialists' meeting for NCGIA Initiative 19: GIS and Society, Summer 1996 [cited 21 March 2007]. Available from http://www.spatial.maine.edu/~schroedr/ppgis/criteria.html.

Ghose, Rina, and William E. Huxhold. 2001. Role of local contextual factors in building public participation GIS: The Milwaukee experience. Cartography and Geographic Information Systems 28 (3):195-208.

Krygier, J.B. 2002. A praxis of public participation GIS and visualization. In Community Participation and Geographic Information Systems, edited by W. J. Craig, T. M. Harris and D. Weiner. New York: Taylor and Francis.

Kwan, Mei-Po. 2002. Is GIS for women? Reflections on the critical discourse in the 1990s. Gender, Place and Culture 9 (3):271-279.

Kwan, Mei-Po. 2002. Feminist Visualization: Re-envisioning GIS as a Method in Feminist Geographic Research. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 92 (4):645-661.

Ghose, Rina. 2004. Complexities in Spatial Knowledge Production in Public Participation GIS. Paper read at GIScience 2004: The Third International Conference in Geographic Information Science, October 20-23, 2004, at Aldelphi, Maryland.

Ghose, Rina. 2007. Politics of Scale and Networks of Association in PPGIS. Environment and Planning A 39 (8):1961-1980.

Gilbert, Melissa, and Michele Masucci. 2006. The Implications of Including Women's Daily Lives in a Feminist GIScience. Transactions in GIS 10 (5):751-761.

Hannah, Matthew G. 2008. Mapping the Under-Scrutinized: The West German Census Boycott Movement of 1987 and the Dangers of Information-Based Security. In Geospatial Technologies and Homeland Security, edited by D. Z. Sui: Springer.

About Me

Matthew W. Wilson is an associate professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky and a visiting scholar at the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University. He has previously taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and his current research project focuses on the founding of the Laboratory for Computer Graphics at Harvard in 1965, a catalyzing moment in the advent of the digital map.